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When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.
Anthony de Mello
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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
Philosopher
Priest
Psychologist
Theologian
Writer
Bombay
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Driving
Succeed
Failure
Brakes
Longer
Tensions
Fear
Brake
Succeeding
Relaxed
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Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
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When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover ... not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness.
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The Master was exceedingly gracious to university dons who visited him, but he would never reply to their questions or be drawn into their theological speculations. To his disciples, who marveled at this, he said, Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?
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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
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I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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You're so ashamed of your past drop it! You're so proud of your past drop it!
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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
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Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?
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You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying.
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What is the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.
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When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.
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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
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When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
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What is my identity ? Nothing, said the Master. You mean that I am an emptiness and a void? said the incredulous disciple. Nothing that can be labeled. said the Master.
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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.
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The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
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